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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless network card not loaded on first boot after shutdown
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:39:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc80b7rz5zrFMCJYOvLjkOPdZHii95Z7p8fsZiN6AzWCTeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB11B8A.5090609@darkmetatron.de>

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Sebastian Beßler
<sebastian@darkmetatron.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a wireless card that works most of the time perfect with the
> ath9k kernel module but not on first boot after a few hours long shutdown.
>
>  * Bringing up interface wlan0
>  *   ERROR: interface wlan0 does not exist
>  *   Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hardware
>  * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start
>
> A reboot fixes the problem.
> The kernel module loads without error in both cases.
>
> # uname -r
> 3.1.0-gentoo
>
> # lspci -v
> 03:07.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 002d (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 0300
>        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 176, IRQ 21
>        Memory at fdce0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
>        Kernel modules: ath9k
>
> Greetings

Does the wireless card needs a firmware? Do you use an initramfs? I
ask since my iwlagn wireless car does, and if I boot using an
initramfs, I need to include the firmware file on it for the card to
work.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-02 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-02 10:29 [gentoo-user] Wireless network card not loaded on first boot after shutdown Sebastian Beßler
2011-11-02 19:39 ` Canek Peláez Valdés [this message]
2011-11-03 13:16   ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-11-03 22:57     ` Mick
2011-11-04  9:17       ` Sebastian Beßler

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